Overview

• Harjinder Singh, 28, faces three counts each of manslaughter and vehicular homicide in the Aug. 12 crash that killed three people, and a Florida judge denied him bond as a flight risk.
• A Change.org campaign led by “Collective Punjabi youth” has drawn nearly 2.5 million signatures urging leniency, while a counter-petition opposing clemency has gathered about 1.6 million.
• Federal officials have placed an ICE detainer on Singh, and the Department of Homeland Security has described him as a significant threat to public safety.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a pause on issuing some work visas for foreign truck drivers, focusing on categories such as H‑2B, with a few thousand drivers potentially affected, according to AP reporting.
• Regulatory reviews are underway, and an FMCSA compliance assessment reported that Singh failed English-language and road-sign proficiency checks as officials also dispute his work authorization and CDL issuance.